QGIS Planethttp://planet.qgis.org/planetQGIS Planet - A feed aggregator for QGIS related blogs.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 10:56:29 -0000anitagraser.com: New style: conveyor belt flowshttps://anitagraser.com/2016/12/08/new-style-conveyor-belt-flows/<p>The QGIS map style I want to share with you today was inspired by a <a href="http://visionscarto.net/le-systeme-chine">hand-drawn map by Philippe Rekacewicz</a> that I saw on Twitter:</p>
<div class="embed-twitter">
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="fr">Visionscarto met en ligne quelques unes des archives <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chine?src=hash">#Chine</a>, dans le contexte régional et dans la mondialisation <a href="https://t.co/51nFLHUSXM">https://t.co/51nFLHUSXM</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZIlnEUxJK3">pic.twitter.com/ZIlnEUxJK3</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Visions carto (@visionscarto) <a href="https://twitter.com/visionscarto/status/802118795255050240">November 25, 2016</a></p></blockquote>
<p></div>
<p>The look reminds me of conveyor belts, thus the name choice.</p>
<p>You can download the symbol and a small sample dataset by adding <a href="https://github.com/anitagraser/QGIS-resource-collections">my repo</a> to the <a href="https://anitagraser.com/2016/10/23/more-icons-symbols-for-qgis/">QGIS Resource Sharing plugin</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="resourcesharing_conveyor" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4709" height="470" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/resourcesharing_conveyor.png?w=545&#038;h=470" width="545" /></p>
<p>The conveyor belt is a line symbol that makes extensive use of Geometry generators. One generator for the circle at the flow line start and end point, respectively, another generator for the belt, and a final one for the small arrows around the colored circles. The color and size of the circle are data defined:</p>
<p><img alt="conveyor_details" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4711" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/conveyor_details.png?w=545" /></p>
<p>The collection also contains a sample Geopackage dataset which you can use to test the symbol immediately. It is worth noting that the circle size has to be specified in layer CRS units.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great fun playing with the power of Geometry generator symbol layers and QGIS geometry expressions. For example, this is the expression for the final geometry that is used to draw the small arrows around colored circles:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
line_merge(
intersection(
exterior_ring(
convex_hull(
union(
buffer( start_point($geometry), &quot;start_size&quot; ),
buffer( end_point($geometry), 500000 )
)
)
),
exterior_ring(
buffer( start_point( $geometry), &quot;start_size&quot; )
)
)
)
</pre>
<p>The expression constructs buffer circles, the belt geometry (convex_hull around buffers), and finally extracts the intersecting part from the start circle and the belt geometry.</p>
<p>Hope you enjoy it!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s holiday season, why not share one of your own symbols with the QGIS community?</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/underdark.wordpress.com/4708/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/underdark.wordpress.com/4708/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=anitagraser.com&#038;blog=835829&#038;post=4708&#038;subd=underdark&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" />nospam@nospam.com (underdark)Thu, 08 Dec 2016 10:56:29 -0000https://anitagraser.com/2016/12/08/new-style-conveyor-belt-flows/cartographyqgisstyleNirvns QGIS blogs: Color Ramp Improvements in Upcoming QGIS 3.0http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/color-ramp-improvements-in-upcoming-qgis-30<p><img src="http://www.imhere-asia.com//blog/bl-content/uploads/colorrampimprovementscover1.jpg" /></p><p>QGIS’ handling of color ramps has just gotten much better with a series of improvements we committed to the open source project’s upcoming version 3.0.</p>
<p>This slide goes through brief summary of changes:
<img alt="Color ramp handling, made fun!" src="http://www.imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/colorrampimprovements.jpg" />
<em>Color ramp handling, made fun!</em></p>
<p>On the developer front, one nice improvement is the addition of an invert() function directly attached to color ramp classes (QgsColorRamp and its children). This removed the need for symbol layers and renderers to implement individual invert-related functions; those are now served with a customized source color ramp, with edited steps and/or reversed order already taken into account.</p>nospam@nospam.comSun, 04 Dec 2016 23:30:06 -0000http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/color-ramp-improvements-in-upcoming-qgis-30qgisMarkus Neteler: GDAL 2.1 packaged for Fedora 23 and 24http://courses.neteler.org/gdal-2-1-packaged-fedora-23-24/<div class="pf-content"><p><img alt="GDAL logo" class="alignright wp-image-938" height="91" src="http://courses.neteler.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gdal_logo.png" width="84" />The new <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.1.0-News">GDAL 2.1</a> is now also packaged for Fedora 23 and 24 which is possible due to the tireless <a href="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1826">efforts</a> of various Fedora packagers.</p>
<p>Repo: <a href="https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/neteler/GDAL/">https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/neteler/GDAL/</a></p>
<p>Installation Instructions:</p>
<pre>su
# Fedora 23+24:
# install this extra repo
dnf copr enable neteler/GDAL
# A) in case of update, simply
dnf update
# B) in case of new installation (gdal-devel is optional)
dnf install gdal gdal-python gdal-devel</pre>
</div><img alt="" height="0" src="http://courses.neteler.org/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.neteler.org%2Fgdal-2-1-packaged-fedora-23-24%2F&amp;action_name=GDAL+2.1+packaged+for+Fedora+23+and+24&amp;urlref=http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.neteler.org%2Ffeed%2F" style="border: 0; width: 0; height: 0;" width="0" /><p>The post <a href="http://courses.neteler.org/gdal-2-1-packaged-fedora-23-24/" rel="nofollow">GDAL 2.1 packaged for Fedora 23 and 24</a> appeared first on <a href="http://courses.neteler.org" rel="nofollow">GFOSS Blog | GRASS GIS Courses</a>.</p>nospam@nospam.com (neteler)Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:32:49 -0000http://courses.neteler.org/gdal-2-1-packaged-fedora-23-24/gdalosgeoMarkus Neteler: QGIS 2.18 packaged for Fedora 23 and 24http://courses.neteler.org/qgis-2-18-packaged-fedora-23-24/<div class="pf-content"><p><a href="http://courses.neteler.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/qgis-icon_small.png"><img alt="qgis-icon_small" class="alignright size-full wp-image-747" height="70" src="http://courses.neteler.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/qgis-icon_small.png" width="70" /></a>Thanks to the work of Volker Fröhlich and other Fedora packagers I was able to create <strong>RPM packages</strong> of <a href="http://qgis.org">QGIS 2.18 Las Palmas</a> for Fedora 23 and 24 using Fedora&#8217;s <a href="https://copr.fedoraproject.org">COPR</a> platform.</p>
<p>Repo: <a href="https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/neteler/QGIS-2.18-Las-Palmas/">https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/neteler/QGIS-2.18-Las-Palmas</a></p>
<p>The following packages can now be installed:</p>
<ul>
<li>qgis 2.18.0</li>
<li>qgis-debuginfo 2.18.0</li>
<li>qgis-devel 2.18.0</li>
<li>qgis-grass 2.18.0</li>
<li>qgis-python 2.18.0</li>
<li>qgis-server 2.18.0</li>
</ul>
<p>Installation instructions (run as &#8220;root&#8221; user or use &#8220;sudo&#8221;):</p>
<pre><code>su
# Fedora 23, Fedora 24:
dnf copr enable neteler/QGIS-2.18-Las-Palmas
dnf update
# note: the "qca-ossl" package is the OpenSSL plugin for QCA
dnf install qgis qgis-grass qgis-python qca-ossl</code></pre>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
</div><img alt="" height="0" src="http://courses.neteler.org/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.neteler.org%2Fqgis-2-18-packaged-fedora-23-24%2F&amp;action_name=QGIS+2.18+packaged+for+Fedora+23+and+24&amp;urlref=http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.neteler.org%2Ffeed%2F" style="border: 0; width: 0; height: 0;" width="0" /><p>The post <a href="http://courses.neteler.org/qgis-2-18-packaged-fedora-23-24/" rel="nofollow">QGIS 2.18 packaged for Fedora 23 and 24</a> appeared first on <a href="http://courses.neteler.org" rel="nofollow">GFOSS Blog | GRASS GIS Courses</a>.</p>nospam@nospam.com (neteler)Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:32:49 -0000http://courses.neteler.org/qgis-2-18-packaged-fedora-23-24/osgeoqgisNirvns QGIS blogs: QGIS 3.0 + Qt5: Major Improvements in Text Shaping for Complex Languageshttp://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/qgis-3-qt5-major-improvements-in-text-shaping-for-complex-languages<p><img src="http://www.imhere-asia.com//blog/bl-content/uploads/front_0.jpg" /></p><p><em>TL;DR if all goes according to plan, the next major version of QGIS will feature an updated set of core libraries; among the many benefits this will bring is support for proper rendering for a whole new range of complex languages</em></p>
<p>QGIS has long been recognized for its excellent Unicode encoding support which enables handling of data and the rendering of maps in a wide range of languages, including but not limited to complex Indic-based writing sytems such as Khmer or Lao.</p>
<p>This is possible in large part due to QGIS’ underlying foundation: Qt. As part of the forthcoming 3.0 release, QGIS is planning to leave Qt4 behind – which has for years now gone into maintenance-only mode - and upgrade to actively developed Qt5, the framework's latest version. This is a significant change and it is cause for celebration as it will come with a wide range of ameliorations all around, across all platforms.</p>
<p>Over here, we are particularly excited about one specific improvement: the revamped text shaping engine. </p>
<p><strong>The what?</strong></p>
<p>Text shaping is the process through which text is converted into glyphs and positioned to form characters. In Qt, that process is handled by a library called harfbuzz. Under Qt4, the library relies on its first generation codebase. Under Qt5 however, a rebooted library codebase (referred to as harfbuzz-ng) is used. </p>
<p>The difference between those two libraries? Over four years worth of improvements! The source tree of the original harfbuzz library saw its last commit on July 30, 2012. The harfbuzz-ng tree however is actively developed, with its latest release, 1.3.0, dating July 21, 2016.</p>
<p><strong>Tangible benefits</strong></p>
<p>Based in Southeast Asia, we routinely produce maps featuring complex languages from the region. One such language is Burmese, which Qt4 simply does not support due to its use of harfbuzz’s first generation codebase. </p>
<p>When rendering Burmese language with QGIS compiled against Qt4, things looked like this:
<img alt="Oh-ho" src="http://www.imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/bad.jpg" /></p>
<p>The glyphs’ shapes and positioning are all wrong, resulting in illegible text. For those who are not familiar with Indic-based languages such as Burmese, the above would be like taking the following text “I love QGIS!” and rendering it “LvQg e! SIo”.</p>
<p>When compiled against Qt5, powered by harfbuzz-ng, QGIS properly shapes Burmese text:
<img alt="Haa" src="http://www.imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/good.jpg" /></p>
<p>Hurray! 🎉 </p>
<p>For those interested in building QGIS against Qt5, follow the instructions on <a href="http://www.opengis.ch/2016/05/04/qgis-qt5-and-python3-migration-current-state/">this post</a> by OpenGIS.</p>
<p><em>Note: Windows users have not – contrary to Linux users - been virtually stuck in 2012 when it comes to text rendering as Qt4 defers to the system’s uniscribe library to do shaping; uniscribe is actively developed by Microsoft with new versions shipped alongside Windows updates.</em></p>nospam@nospam.comSat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:16 -0000http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/qgis-3-qt5-major-improvements-in-text-shaping-for-complex-languagesNirvns QGIS blogs: The Little Things That Matter: Localizing Numerals in Upcoming QGIS 3.0http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/the-little-things-that-matter-localizing-numerals-in-upcoming-qgis-30<p><img src="http://www.imhere-asia.com//blog/bl-content/uploads/thainumbers.png" /></p><p>When producing localized cartographic products, we often have to render numbers - integer and float values - in languages that do not make use of Arabic numerals. For instance, in the map above, area values (in red) are rendered in Thai, based on a numerical field.</p>
<p>In QGIS, until now, users could create an expression-based label that would use a series of replace() function embedded into one another against an numerical field to dynamically localize the numbers:</p>
<pre><code>replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(“my_integer_field”,'0','๐'),'1','๑'),'2','๒'),'3','๓'),'4','๔'),'5','๕'),'6','๖'),'7','๗'),'8','๘'),'9','๙')</code></pre>
<p>To say it didn’t look very good is a gross understatement.</p>
<p>In upcoming version 3.0, the expression engine’s replace() function got upgraded to support arrays (and map) replacement parameters, making for a much cleaner syntax.</p>
<p>For e.g., this is how an expression to convert Arabic numerals into Thai numerals look like:</p>
<pre><code>replace(“my_integer_field”,map('0','๐','1','๑','2','๒','3','๓','4','๔','5','๕','6','๖','7','๗','8','๘','9','๙'))</code></pre>
<p>With a simple replace call, QGIS now allows for on-the-fly localization of number fields. Couple that with the virtual fields feature, users can also have the localized values show up in the attribute table:</p>
<p><img alt="I can see!" src="http://www.imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/thainumbers1.png" /></p>nospam@nospam.comSat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:16 -0000http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/the-little-things-that-matter-localizing-numerals-in-upcoming-qgis-30Nirvns QGIS blogs: Style Management Improvements in Upcoming QGIS 3.0http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/style-management-improvements-in-upcoming-qgis-30<p><img src="http://www.imhere-asia.com//blog/bl-content/uploads/stylemanagementimprovementscover_1.jpg" /></p><p>Over the last few weeks, we’ve been busy improving the user interface as well as adding features to QGIS’ style management system. The end result is a streamlined experience with better exposure to saved symbols’ management tools such as tagging and a newly-implemented favorites system.</p>
<p>This slide offers an brief overview of the changes, part of upcoming QGIS 3.0:
<img alt="style management: what's new" src="http://www.imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/qgis3-stylemanagementimprovements-p1+p2.jpg" /></p>
<p>We also took the time to update the default set of saved symbols shipped with QGIS:
<img alt="Image description" src="http://www.imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/qgis3-new-shipped-symbols_3.jpg" /></p>
<p>The new set better serves users looking for usable predefined set of symbols. It also does a good job at reflecting the cartographic capabilities of the software.</p>
<p>For adventurous Linux-based OS users able to compile QGIS, these improvements are now available on the master branch. For Windows users, work is under way to make QGIS 3.0’s underlying libraries available.</p>nospam@nospam.comSat, 26 Nov 2016 00:00:16 -0000http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/style-management-improvements-in-upcoming-qgis-30Nirvns QGIS blogs: QGIS 3.0 + Qt5: Major Improvements in Text Shaping for Complex Languageshttp://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/qgis-3-qt5-major-improvements-in-text-shaping-for-complex-languages<p><img src="http://www.imhere-asia.com//blog/bl-content/uploads/front_0.jpg" /></p><p><em>TL;DR if all goes according to plan, the next major version of QGIS will feature an updated set of core libraries; among the many benefits this will bring is support for proper rendering for a whole new range of complex languages</em></p>
<p>QGIS has long been recognized for its excellent Unicode encoding support which enables handling of data and the rendering of maps in a wide range of languages, including but not limited to complex Indic-based writing sytems such as Khmer or Lao.</p>
<p>This is possible in large part due to QGIS’ underlying foundation: Qt. As part of the forthcoming 3.0 release, QGIS is planning to leave Qt4 behind – which has for years now gone into maintenance-only mode - and upgrade to actively developed Qt5, the framework's latest version. This is a significant change and it is cause for celebration as it will come with a wide range of ameliorations all around, across all platforms.</p>
<p>Over here, we are particularly excited about one specific improvement: the revamped text shaping engine. </p>
<p><strong>The what?</strong></p>
<p>Text shaping is the process through which text is converted into glyphs and positioned to form characters. In Qt, that process is handled by a library called harfbuzz. Under Qt4, the library relies on its first generation codebase. Under Qt5 however, a rebooted library codebase (referred to as harfbuzz-ng) is used. </p>
<p>The difference between those two libraries? Over four years worth of improvements! The source tree of the original harfbuzz library saw its last commit on July 30, 2012. The harfbuzz-ng tree however is actively developed, with its latest release, 1.3.0, dating July 21, 2016.</p>
<p><strong>Tangible benefits</strong></p>
<p>Based in Southeast Asia, we routinely produce maps featuring complex languages from the region. One such language is Burmese, which Qt4 simply does not support due to its use of harfbuzz’s first generation codebase. </p>
<p>When rendering Burmese language with QGIS compiled against Qt4, things looked like this:
<img alt="Oh-ho" src="http://imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/bad.jpg" /></p>
<p>The glyphs’ shapes and positioning are all wrong, resulting in illegible text. For those who are not familiar with Indic-based languages such as Burmese, the above would be like taking the following text “I love QGIS!” and rendering it “LvQg e! SIo”.</p>
<p>When compiled against Qt5, powered by harfbuzz-ng, QGIS properly shapes Burmese text:
<img alt="Haa" src="http://imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/good.jpg" /></p>
<p>Hurray! 🎉 </p>
<p>For those interested in building QGIS against Qt5, follow the instructions on <a href="http://www.opengis.ch/2016/05/04/qgis-qt5-and-python3-migration-current-state/">this post</a> by OpenGIS.</p>
<p><em>Note: Windows users have not – contrary to Linux users - been virtually stuck in 2012 when it comes to text rendering as Qt4 defers to the system’s uniscribe library to do shaping; uniscribe is actively developed by Microsoft with new versions shipped alongside Windows updates.</em></p>nospam@nospam.comFri, 25 Nov 2016 23:30:23 -0000http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/qgis-3-qt5-major-improvements-in-text-shaping-for-complex-languagesNirvns QGIS blogs: The Little Things That Matter: Localizing Numerals in Upcoming QGIS 3.0http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/the-little-things-that-matter-localizing-numerals-in-upcoming-qgis-30<p><img src="http://www.imhere-asia.com//blog/bl-content/uploads/thainumbers.png" /></p><p>When producing localized cartographic products, we often have to render numbers - integer and float values - in languages that do not make use of Arabic numerals. For instance, in the map above, area values (in red) are rendered in Thai, based on a numerical field.</p>
<p>In QGIS, until now, users could create an expression-based label that would use a series of replace() function embedded into one another against an numerical field to dynamically localize the numbers:</p>
<pre><code>replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(“my_integer_field”,'0','๐'),'1','๑'),'2','๒'),'3','๓'),'4','๔'),'5','๕'),'6','๖'),'7','๗'),'8','๘'),'9','๙')</code></pre>
<p>To say it didn’t look very good is a gross understatement.</p>
<p>In upcoming version 3.0, the expression engine’s replace() function got upgraded to support arrays (and map) replacement parameters, making for a much cleaner syntax.</p>
<p>For e.g., this is how an expression to convert Arabic numerals into Thai numerals look like:</p>
<pre><code>replace(“my_integer_field”,map('0','๐','1','๑','2','๒','3','๓','4','๔','5','๕','6','๖','7','๗','8','๘','9','๙'))</code></pre>
<p>With a simple replace call, QGIS now allows for on-the-fly localization of number fields. Couple that with the virtual fields feature, users can also have the localized values show up in the attribute table:</p>
<p><img alt="I can see!" src="http://imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/thainumbers1.png" /></p>nospam@nospam.comFri, 25 Nov 2016 23:30:23 -0000http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/the-little-things-that-matter-localizing-numerals-in-upcoming-qgis-30Nirvns QGIS blogs: Style Management Improvements in Upcoming QGIS 3.0http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/style-management-improvements-in-upcoming-qgis-30<p><img src="http://www.imhere-asia.com//blog/bl-content/uploads/stylemanagementimprovementscover_1.jpg" /></p><p>Over the last few weeks, we’ve been busy improving the user interface as well as adding features to QGIS’ style management system. The end result is a streamlined experience with better exposure to saved symbols’ management tools such as tagging and a newly-implemented favorites system.</p>
<p>This slide offers an brief overview of the changes, part of upcoming QGIS 3.0:
<img alt="style management: what's new" src="http://imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/qgis3-stylemanagementimprovements-p1+p2.jpg" /></p>
<p>We also took the time to update the default set of saved symbols shipped with QGIS:
<img alt="Image description" src="http://imhere-asia.com/blog/bl-content/uploads/qgis3-new-shipped-symbols_3.jpg" /></p>
<p>The new set better serves users looking for usable predefined set of symbols. It also does a good job at reflecting the cartographic capabilities of the software.</p>
<p>For adventurous Linux-based OS users able to compile QGIS, these improvements are now available on the master branch. For Windows users, work is under way to make QGIS 3.0’s underlying libraries available.</p>nospam@nospam.comFri, 25 Nov 2016 23:30:23 -0000http://imhere-asia.com/blog/post/style-management-improvements-in-upcoming-qgis-30anitagraser.com: Movement data in GIS #4: variations over timehttps://anitagraser.com/2016/11/20/movement-data-in-gis-4-variations-over-time/<p>In the previous post, I presented an approach to <a href="https://anitagraser.com/2016/11/07/movement-data-in-gis-3-visualizing-massive-trajectory-datasets/">generalize big trajectory datasets</a> by extracting flows between cells of a data-driven irregular grid. This generalization provides a much better overview of the flow and directionality than a simple plot of the original raw trajectory data can. The paper introducing this method also contains more advanced visualizations that show cell statistics, such as the overall count of trajectories or the generalization quality. Another bit of information that is often of interest when exploring movement data, is the time of the movement. For example, at <a href="http://lbsconference.org/proceedings/">LBS2016</a> last week, M. Jahnke presented an application that allows users to explore the number of taxi pickups and dropoffs at certain locations:</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_4680" style="width: 555px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/underdarkGIS/status/798840213174816769"><img alt="Jahnke, M., Ding, L., Karja, K., &amp; Wang, S. (2017). Identifying Origin/Destination Hotspots in Floating Car Data for Visual Analysis of Traveling Behavior. In Progress in Location-Based Services 2016 (pp. 253-269). Springer International Publishing." class="size-full wp-image-4680" height="371" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/lbs2016slide.png?w=545&#038;h=371" width="545" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text"><a href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-47289-8_13">Jahnke, M., Ding, L., Karja, K., &amp; Wang, S. (2017). Identifying Origin/Destination Hotspots in Floating Car Data for Visual Analysis of Traveling Behavior. In Progress in Location-Based Services 2016 (pp. 253-269). Springer International Publishing.</a></p></div>
<p>By adopting this approach for the generalized flow maps, we can, for example, explore which parts of the research area are busy at which time of the day. Here I have divided the day into four quarters: night from 0 to 6 (light blue), morning from 6 to 12 (orange), afternoon from 12 to 18 (red), and evening from 18 to 24 (dark blue).</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_4687" style="width: 555px;"><img alt=" (data credits: GeoLife project, " class="size-full wp-image-4687" height="545" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/2_flows_and_time_pies.png?w=545&#038;h=545" width="545" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Aggregated trajectories with time-of-day markers at flow network nodes (data credits: <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/geolife-building-social-networks-using-human-location-history/">GeoLife project</a>, map tiles: <a href="https://carto.com/location-data-services/basemaps/">Carto</a>, map data: <a href="http://openstreetmap.org/">OSM</a>)</p></div>
<p>The resulting visualization shows that overall, there is less movement during the night hours from midnight to 6 in the morning (light blue quarter). Sounds reasonable!</p>
<p>One implementation detail worth considering is which timestamp should be used for counting the number of movements. Should it be the time of the first trajectory point entering a cell, or the time when the trajectory leaves the cell, or some average value? In the current implementation, I have opted for the entry time. This means that if the tracked person spends a long time within a cell (e.g. at the work location) the trip home only adds to the evening trip count of the neighboring cell along the trajectory.</p>
<p>Since the time information stored in a PostGIS LinestringM feature&#8217;s m-value does not contain any time zone information, we also have to pay attention to handle any necessary offsets. For example, the GeoLife documentation states that all timestamps are provided in GMT while Beijing is in the GMT+8 time zone. This offset has to be accounted for in the analysis script, otherwise the counts per time of day will be all over the place.</p>
<p>Using the same approach, we could also investigate other variations, e.g. over different days of the week, seasonal variations, or the development over multiple years.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/underdark.wordpress.com/4679/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/underdark.wordpress.com/4679/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=anitagraser.com&#038;blog=835829&#038;post=4679&#038;subd=underdark&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" />nospam@nospam.com (underdark)Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:43:43 -0000https://anitagraser.com/2016/11/20/movement-data-in-gis-4-variations-over-time/qgisspatio-temporal datavisualizationQGIS PSC blog: Let’s make a big funding push for QGIS 3.0!http://blog.qgis.org/2016/11/19/lets-make-a-big-funding-push-for-qgis-3-0/<p>In 2017 we are planning to release QGIS 3.0. This new major version will become the basis of the next LTR release (QGIS 3.2) and is set to be a sea-change in the development of QGIS. It will modernize the architecture to get rid of many legacy issues that we were unable to resolve in the minor release series of 2.x releases. For example we are switching to Qt5, Python3 stripping out deprecated API&#8217;s, cleaning away many old code artifacts, and making a huge range of under the hood tweaks to improve the performance and stability of QGIS. Here are some of the other key issues that need to be worked on before we can release QGIS 3.0:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/52">Refactor attribute actions</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/44">Remove old snapping classes</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/42">Consolidate and tidy up singletons</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/28">Cleanup (and rename?) QgsGeometry classes</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/8">Support loading multiple project files at once</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/qgis/qgis3.0_api/issues/66#issuecomment-256330862">http://Avoid dependency to gui when not needed</a></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>QGIS Server needs to be updated to work with QGIS 3.0</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>QGIS Composer needs an overhaul</li>
</ul>
<p>There are many more &#8216;under the hood&#8217; items like this that we would like sort out before we can release QGIS 3.0.</p>
<p>Recently we announced the <a href="http://blog.qgis.org/2016/10/04/winning-qgis-grant-proposals-for-2016/">winners</a> for our new grant programme which directly funds developers wishing to make improvements to the QGIS project. We would like to amp things up a notch further and thus with this blog post we would like to make this appeal:</p>
<ul>
<li>If you are an individual user please consider <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/donations.html">making a donation to the project</a> (donations can be made by PayPal or by direct bank transfer).</li>
<li>If you work for a company, please consider <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html?highlight=sponsoring">becoming a project sponsor</a>. Our entry level sponsorship is not a lot of money and will make a great contribution to the project. We are still looking for our first platinum sponsor &#8211; perhaps your company could be the first! Here is the list of sponsorship levels for quick reference:</li>
</ul>
<table border="0" class="table">
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr class="row-odd">
<th class="head">Euros</th>
<th class="head">Sponsorship level</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="row-even">
<td>27,000+</td>
<td>Platinum Sponsor</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd">
<td>9,000+</td>
<td>Gold Sponsor</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even">
<td>3,000+</td>
<td>Silver Sponsor</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd">
<td>500+</td>
<td>Bronze Sponsor</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<ul>
<li>If you are a company that makes use of <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html">contract QGIS developers</a>, include in your contracts a provision for the developer to get your new features into the 3.0 code base with a nice set of tests so that the burden does not get passed upstream to volunteer developers to port your features to QGIS 3.0.</li>
<li>If you are a company that has in-house QGIS developers, consider allocating some of their time to supporting the QGIS 3.0 development effort.</li>
<li>If you are a <a href="https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/usergroups.html">country user group</a>, please try to hold a funding drive within your user group and pass the funds either to the upstream QGIS.ORG project or support developers who are in your country to do bug fixing and implementation work for QGIS 3.0.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have other ideas about how to support the effort we will be glad to hear them! We will put as much money from QGIS.ORG funds as possible into developers that are willing and able to work on the preparation of QGIS 3.0.</p>
<p>A huge thank you to all of those that have already contributed time and money into the effort to get QGIS 3.0 ready for release!</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/qgisblog.wordpress.com/1121/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/qgisblog.wordpress.com/1121/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=blog.qgis.org&#038;blog=93459676&#038;post=1121&#038;subd=qgisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" />nospam@nospam.com (Tim Sutton)Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:10:59 -0000http://blog.qgis.org/2016/11/19/lets-make-a-big-funding-push-for-qgis-3-0/qgis fundinguncategorizedQGIS UK: QGIS UK Edinburgh: an overviewhttps://ukqgis.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/qgis-uk-edinburgh-an-overview/<p style="text-align: center;">6th Scottish QGIS UK user group meeting<br />
Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh<br />
3rd November 2016</p>
<p>A full house with all tickets sold. Our biggest event yet. A last minute decision to video the talks. A first ever raffle to raise funds for the QGIS project. More than half the attendees were at a QGIS user group for the first time. All sectors represented and a range of talks from accessible introductions to QGIS functionality to wonderful technical geekery to varied FOSS4G use cases.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/welcome-to-the-6th-scottish-qgis-uk-meeting">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/kHDZmmzKU4U">https://youtu.be/kHDZmmzKU4U</a></p>
<p><strong>How deep is your loch?</strong><br />
Phil Taylor (<a href="https://twitter.com/scienceandmaps">@scienceandmaps</a>) from CEH opened up the day with a detailed explanation of how he lovingly captured the plumbed depths of four Scottish lochs and turned them into interactive 3D visualisations. You can see his results at <a href="http://contours.org.uk/bathymetry" rel="nofollow">http://contours.org.uk/bathymetry</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/how-deep-is-your-loch">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/-q021mocJdI">https://youtu.be/-q021mocJdI</a><span id="more-1500"></span></p>
<p><strong>QGIS Server: the good, not-so-good and the ugly</strong><br />
Fiona Hemsley-Flint showed us the exploratory work she and her team have done with QGIS Server as a possible replacement for MapServer and Cadcorp GeognoSIS. QGIS server is capable and can render complex styles and labels well but was generally 5 to 10 times slower than GeognoSIS in rendering the maps.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/qgis-server-the-good-the-notsogood-and-the-ugly">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/TPoOOkurtlA">https://youtu.be/TPoOOkurtlA</a></p>
<p><strong>Installing QGIS on a Network</strong><br />
Tom Armitage (<a href="https://twitter.com/MapNav_Tom">@MapNav_Tom</a>) from the University of Edinburgh gave a quick run through of the requirements for installing QGIS 2.14.3 across 3000 computers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/installing-qgis-on-a-network">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/fv3fgI-u084">https://youtu.be/fv3fgI-u084</a></p>
<p><strong>Mapping narrative: QGIS in the Digital Humanities </strong><br />
Anouk Lang (<a href="https://twitter.com/e_a_lang">@e_a_lang</a>) from the University of Edinburgh explained how mapping and visualisation were used to engage students and explore literature in a different way.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/mapping-narrative-qgis-in-the-humanities-classrom">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/XlADXIrC9PE">https://youtu.be/XlADXIrC9PE</a></p>
<p><strong>QGIS Plug-in for Parallel Processing in Terrain Analysis</strong><br />
Art Lembo (<a href="https://twitter.com/artlembo">@artlembo</a>) from Salisbury University, Maryland, USA got everyone excited about advances in personal computing power and how graphics cards can be harnessed to speed up spatial processing. The trouble with geographic data is that it is usually a large chunk of data with relatively little processing required. Parallel processing likes small chunks of data that need huge amounts of processing. The plugin hits the limit of the ability of Python to pass through more data. That&#8217;s how fast the graphics cards are.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/qgis-plugin-for-parallel-processing-in-terrain-analysis">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/mkDMFiVLdkg">https://youtu.be/mkDMFiVLdkg</a></p>
<p><strong>Viewshed analysis and how to find the heart of Scotland</strong><br />
Neil Benny (<a href="https://twitter.com/bennymapper">@bennymapper</a>) from thinkWhere gave a very useful overview of how to use the different tools in QGIS to generate viewsheds which a lot people at the event could see a use for in their workflows. See <a href="https://blog.thinkwhere.com/2016/08/25/viewsheds-and-visibility-analysis-in-qgis/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.thinkwhere.com/2016/08/25/viewsheds-and-visibility-analysis-in-qgis/</a> for more information.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/viewsheds-and-advanced-calculations">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/LOPuw2-oaPA">https://youtu.be/LOPuw2-oaPA</a></p>
<p><strong>qgis2web: <em>geocrustin&#8217;</em></strong><br />
Tom Chadwin (<a href="https://twitter.com/tomchadwin">@tomchadwin</a>) from NNPA gave an entertaining talk on how and why he developed the qgis2web plugin. He showed us how to use it and you can see why it is such a popular extension to QGIS.</p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/4gyW1aeoTvU">https://youtu.be/4gyW1aeoTvU</a></p>
<p><strong>QGIS 3.0, WMTS previews and XYZ support in QGIS 2.18</strong><br />
Pete Wells (<a href="https://twitter.com/lutraconsulting">@lutraconsulting</a>) from Lutra Consulting gave a more technical talk on some behind the scenes work that they have been doing to make using QGIS 3.0 even better for the user. No more waiting for the base map to load as the WMS server thinks about the request &#8211; tiled services quickly and seamlessly fill the screen. For more information see <a href="http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/blog/2016/10/26/qgis-xyz-tile-wmts-preview/">http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/blog/2016/10/26/qgis-xyz-tile-wmts-preview/</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/Q83W0XJ2Y3g">https://youtu.be/Q83W0XJ2Y3g</a></p>
<p><strong>Decision Support Systems in Forestry</strong><br />
Stephen Bathgate (<a href="https://twitter.com/Forestry_Research">@Forestry_Research</a>) from the Forestry Commission gave a real world example of how a GIS, and then an open source GIS infrastructure, delivered improved workflows, better efficiencies and made a smaller workforce more effective.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/decision-support-tools-for-forestry-using-open-source-software">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/94_y1qbqk-w">https://youtu.be/94_y1qbqk-w</a></p>
<p><strong>Collecting spatial survey data with Leaflet and OpenStreetMap</strong><br />
Louise Sing (<a href="https://twitter.com/sing_louise">@sing_louise</a>) from Forestry Commission gave a lightning talk on how she used tips learned at previous QGIS user group meetings to put together a simple Leaflet map to collection information about how people use different areas of forest.<br />
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/data-capture-with-leaflet-and-openstreetmap">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/-SCvsqy6txU">https://youtu.be/-SCvsqy6txU</a></p>
<p><strong>Indoor 3D routing with QGIS and pgRouting</strong><br />
Tim Manners (<a href="https://twitter.com/tmnnrs">@tmnnrs</a>) from Ordnance Survey demonstrated the interactive 3D route solving application created using QGIS and the QGIS2threeJS plugin. It can be used to route between locations spread across multiple floors in a building. It can take into account width and height restrictions such as doorways and lifts and can be used to model mass evacuations of a workforce.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/creating-and-indoor-routable-network-with-qgis-and-pgrouting">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/H-v9SXwc3BQ">https://youtu.be/H-v9SXwc3BQ</a></p>
<p><strong>Using QGIS for wildlife surveys and reporting</strong><br />
Andrew Whitelee (<a href="https://twitter.com/VerdantWildlife">@VerdantWildlife</a>) from Taylor Wildlife lead an interactive talk highlighting the difficulty of undertaking robust repeatable wildlife surveys in the great outdoors. He showed how the use of high quality mapping and GPS tracking improved the quality of the surveys and how much sense the use of open source software made for small enterprises.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/using-qgis-for-ecological-surveying">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJhXdYqEmuQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJhXdYqEmuQ</a></p>
<p><strong>Them Thar Hills: shadin&#8217;, texturin&#8217;, blendin&#8217;</strong><br />
Ross McDonald (@<a href="https://twitter.com/mixedbredie">mixedbredie</a>) from Angus Council gave a lightning talk on different ways to generate hillshaded images from elevation models. Regular hillshaded images can be enhanced by generating texture shaded images. Texture shading enhances the drainage network and the visual hierarchy of the landscape. Blender can be used to create rich shaded relief by modelling real sunlight and reflection across the landscape. See <a href="http://textureshading.com">textureshading.com</a> for more information or press F7 in a recent version of QGIS to open the live style dock.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/them-thar-hills-shadin-texturin-blendin">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nkNgtKGbw4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nkNgtKGbw4</a></p>
<p><strong>DOHA: Doha Online Historical Atlas</strong><br />
Michal Michalski from Scottish Government and the DOHA project showcased the mapping work he has been helping with in Doha and the archaeological investigation into the origins of the city. The website is a fantastic example of the integration of different resources including historic maps, photographs, videos and historic records. See <a href="http://originsofdoha.org/doha/index.html">http://originsofdoha.org/doha/index.html</a> for more information.</p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYegqHRoAic">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYegqHRoAic</a></p>
<p><strong>3D indoor maps with QGIS</strong><br />
Tim Jenks (<a href="https://twitter.com/eeGeo">@eeGeo</a>) from eeGeo gave a short talk on how QGIS and other tools were used to build navigable 3D maps of cities and buildings. See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6T_v_e5Re8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6T_v_e5Re8</a> for a demo.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/using-qgis-to-create-3d-indoor-maps">Slides</a></p>
<p>Tom Armitage closed with some remarks on how open source software works and how the QGIS community supports the QGIS project. Roger Garbett managed the raffle (all 500 tickets sold!) with some great prizes (Splash-Maps voucher, QGIS t-shirt voucher, OS colouring map book, Art Lembo&#8217;s text book on geospatial processing, stickers and others) the proceeds of which will go to the QGIS project. There is, after all, no such thing as a free lunch. Even if fantastic and generous sponsors &#8211; Ordnance Survey, thinkWhere, Angus Council, Cawdor Forestry, eeGeo and EDINA &#8211; give us a lovely selection of food and drink (thanks <a href="http://blueskycatering.wix.com/bluesky-catering">BlueSkyCatering</a>) and a top-class venue for a brilliant day out.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/RossMcDonald1/qgis-uk-thank-you-for-coming">Slides</a></p>
<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/cVEPbogf0To">https://youtu.be/cVEPbogf0To</a></p>
<p>The day ended in the Potting Shed with (strong) cask ales and ciders refreshing parched throats. Always a great way to wrap things up.</p>
<p><img alt="qgisug_sponsors_white" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1511" src="https://ukqgis.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/qgisug_sponsors_white.png?w=700" /></p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/ukqgis.wordpress.com/1500/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/ukqgis.wordpress.com/1500/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=ukqgis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=52353387&#038;post=1500&#038;subd=ukqgis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" />nospam@nospam.com (mixedbredie)Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:55:03 -0000https://ukqgis.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/qgis-uk-edinburgh-an-overview/uncategorizedQGIS PSC blog: QGIS 2.18 ‘Las Palmas’ is released!http://blog.qgis.org/2016/11/08/qgis-2-18-las-palmas-is-released/<p>We are pleased to announce the release of QGIS 2.18 &#8216;Las Palmas&#8217;. The city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was the location of our <a href="http://blog.qgis.org/2015/11/15/a-word-of-thanks-to-the-hosts-of-the-14th-qgis-hackfest-in-gran-canaria/">autumn 2015 developer meeting</a>.</p>
<p>This is the last release in the 2.x series. The current Long Term Release (LTR) remains version 2.14.x. This release provides incremental improvements over our previous release. The majority of activity is currently focused towards the development of QGIS 3.0 which is our next generation release planned for the end of the first quarter of 2017.</p>
<p>We would like to thank the developers, documenters, testers and all the many folks out there who volunteer their time and effort (or fund people to do so). From the QGIS community we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to donate time, money or otherwise get involved in making QGIS more awesome, please wander along to <a class="reference external" href="http://qgis.org/">qgis.org</a> and lend a hand!</p>
<p>QGIS is supported by donors and sponsors. A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and small to the project can be seen on our <a class="reference external" href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#list-of-donors">donors list</a>. If you would like to become and official project sponsor, please visit <a class="reference external" href="http://qgis.org/en/site/about/sponsorship.html#sponsorship">our sponsorship page</a> for details. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts. A complete list of current sponsors is provided below &#8211; our very great thank you to all of our sponsors!</p>
<p>QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to pay anything to use it &#8211; in fact we want to encourage people far and wide to use it regardless of what your financial or social status is &#8211; we believe empowering people with spatial decision making tools will result in a better society for all of humanity.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/qgisblog.wordpress.com/1116/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/qgisblog.wordpress.com/1116/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=blog.qgis.org&#038;blog=93459676&#038;post=1116&#038;subd=qgisblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" />nospam@nospam.com (underdark)Tue, 08 Nov 2016 20:11:02 -0000http://blog.qgis.org/2016/11/08/qgis-2-18-las-palmas-is-released/qgis release announcementsanitagraser.com: Movement data in GIS #3: visualizing massive trajectory datasetshttps://anitagraser.com/2016/11/07/movement-data-in-gis-3-visualizing-massive-trajectory-datasets/<p>In the fist two parts of the <em>Movement Data in GIS </em>series, I discussed <a href="https://anitagraser.com/2016/09/18/movement-data-in-gis-issues-ideas/">modeling trajectories as LinestringM features in PostGIS</a> to overcome some common issues of movement data in GIS and presented a way to efficiently <a href="https://anitagraser.com/2016/10/09/movement-data-in-gis-2-visualization/">render speed changes along a trajectory in QGIS</a> without having to split the trajectory into shorter segments.</p>
<p>While visualizing individual trajectories is important, the real challenge is trying to visualize massive trajectory datasets in a way that enables further analysis. The out-of-the-box functionality of GIS is painfully limited. Except for some transparency and heatmap approaches, there is not much that can be done to help interpret &#8220;hairballs&#8221; of trajectories. Luckily researchers in visual analytics have already put considerable effort into finding solutions for this visualization challenge. The approach I want to talk about today is by <a href="http://geoanalytics.net/and/papers/tvcg11.pdf">Andrienko, N., &amp; Andrienko, G. (2011). Spatial generalization and aggregation of massive movement data. <i>IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics</i>, <i>17</i>(2), 205-219</a>. and consists of the following main steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Extracting characteristic points from the trajectories</li>
<li>Grouping the extracted points by spatial proximity</li>
<li>Computing group centroids and corresponding Voronoi cells</li>
<li>Deviding trajectories into segments according to the Voronoi cells</li>
<li>Counting transitions from one cell to another</li>
</ol>
<p>The authors do a great job at describing the concepts and algorithms, which made it relatively straightforward to implement them in QGIS Processing. So far, I&#8217;ve implemented the basic logic but the paper contains further suggestions for improvements. This was also my first pyQGIS project that makes use of the <a href="http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog210/index.html#feature-new-geometry-engine">measurement value support in the new geometry engine</a>. The time information stored in the m-values is used to detect stop points, which &#8211; together with start, end, and turning points &#8211; make up the characteristic points of a trajectory.</p>
<p>The following animation illustrates the current state of the implementation: First the &#8220;hairball&#8221; of trajectories is rendered. Then we extract the characteristic points and group them by proximity. The big black dots are the resulting group centroids. From there, I skipped the Voronoi cells and directly counted transitions from &#8220;nearest to centroid A&#8221; to &#8220;nearest to centroid B&#8221;.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_4657" style="width: 554px;"><a href="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/trajectory_generalization_2.gif"><img alt="(data credits: GeoLife project)" class="size-full wp-image-4657" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/trajectory_generalization_2.gif?w=545" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">From thousands of individual trajectories to a generalized representation of overall movement patterns (data credits: <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/geolife-building-social-networks-using-human-location-history/">GeoLife project</a>, map tiles: <a href="http://maps.stamen.com">Stamen</a>, map data: <a href="http://openstreetmap.org/">OSM</a>)</p></div>
<p>The resulting visualization makes it possible to analyze flow strength as well as directionality. I have deliberately excluded all connections with a count below 10 transitions to reduce visual clutter. The cell size / distance between point groups &#8211; and therefore the level-of-detail &#8211; is one of the input parameters. In my example, I used a target cell size of approximately 2km. This setting results in connections which follow the major roads outside the city center very well. In the city center, where the road grid is tighter, trajectories on different roads mix and the connections are less clear.</p>
<p>Since trajectories in this dataset are not limited to car trips, it is expected to find additional movement that is not restricted to the road network. This is particularly noticeable in the dense area in the west where many slow trajectories &#8211; most likely from walking trips &#8211; are located. The paper also covers how to ensure that connections are limited to neighboring cells by densifying the trajectories before computing step 4.</p>
<p><a href="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/trajectory_generalization.png"><img alt="trajectory_generalization" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4665" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/trajectory_generalization.png?w=545" /></a></p>
<p>Running the scripts for over 18,000 trajectories requires patience. It would be worth evaluating if the first three steps can be run with only a subsample of the data without impacting the results in a negative way.</p>
<p>One thing I&#8217;m not satisfied with yet is the way to specify the target cell size. While it&#8217;s possible to measure ellipsoidal distances in meters using <a href="https://qgis.org/api/classQgsDistanceArea.html">QgsDistanceArea </a>(irrespective of the trajectory layer&#8217;s CRS), the initial regular grid used in step 2 in order to group the extracted points has to be specified in the trajectory layer&#8217;s CRS units &#8211; quite likely degrees. Instead, it may be best to transform everything into an equidistant projection before running any calculations.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s good to see that PyQGIS enables us to use the information encoded in PostGIS LinestringM features to perform spatio-temporal analysis. However, working with m or z values involves a lot of v2 geometry classes which work slightly differently than their v1 counterparts. It certainly takes some getting used to. This situation might get cleaned up as part of the QGIS 3 API refactoring effort. If you can, please support work on QGIS 3. Now is the time to shape the PyQGIS API for the following years!</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/underdark.wordpress.com/4654/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/underdark.wordpress.com/4654/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=anitagraser.com&#038;blog=835829&#038;post=4654&#038;subd=underdark&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" />nospam@nospam.com (underdark)Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:12:56 -0000https://anitagraser.com/2016/11/07/movement-data-in-gis-3-visualizing-massive-trajectory-datasets/datavizpyqgisqgisspatio-temporal datavisualizationMarkus Neteler: GRASS GIS 7.2.0RC1 releasedhttp://courses.neteler.org/grass-gis-7-2-0rc1-released/<div class="pf-content"><div id="NewsPostDetailSummary"><strong> We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of GRASS GIS 7.2.0 </strong></div>
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<p><strong>What&#8217;s new in a nutshell</strong></p>
<p>This is the <strong>first release candidate</strong> of the upcoming major release <strong>GRASS GIS 7.2.0</strong>.</p>
<p>The new GRASS GIS 7.2.0RC1 release provides <strong>more than 1900 stability fixes and manual improvements</strong> compared to the stable releases 7.0.x.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://courses.neteler.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hexagons_python_editor.png"><img alt="hexagons_python_editor" class="alignright wp-image-924" height="235" src="http://courses.neteler.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/hexagons_python_editor-300x169.png" width="417" /></a>About GRASS GIS 7</em>: Its graphical user interface supports the user to make complex GIS operations as simple as possible. The <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/manuals/libpython/">updated Python interface to the C library</a> permits users to create new GRASS GIS-Python modules in a simple way while yet obtaining powerful and fast modules. Furthermore, the libraries were <strong>significantly improved for speed and efficiency</strong>, along with support for <a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Massive_data_analysis">huge files</a>. A lot of effort has been invested to standardize parameter and flag names. Finally, GRASS GIS 7 comes with a series of <strong>new modules</strong> to analyse raster and vector data, along with a full temporal framework. For a detailed overview, see the list of <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures">new features</a>. As a stable release series, 7.2.x enjoys <strong>long-term support</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Binaries/Installer download:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>winGRASS 7.2.0RC1: <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/binary/mswindows/native/x86/WinGRASS-7.2.0RC1-1-Setup-x86.exe">32bit standalone installer</a> | <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/binary/mswindows/native/x86_64/WinGRASS-7.2.0RC1-1-Setup-x86_64.exe">64bit standalone installer</a></li>
<li>winGRASS 7.2.0RC1 OSGeo4W &#8211; testing area: <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup-x86.exe">32bit OSGeo4W installer</a> | <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/osgeo4w-setup-x86_64.exe">64bit OSGeo4W installer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-experimental">ubuntugis-experimental</a> (xenial, trusty)</li>
<li></li>
<li><em>&#8230; further binary packages for various Linux distributions and Mac OSX will follow shortly.</em></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Source code download:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/source/">http://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/source/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/source/grass-7.2.0RC1.tar.gz">http://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/source/grass-7.2.0RC1.tar.gz</a></li>
<li>To get the GRASS GIS 7.2.0RC1 source code directly from SVN, see <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.2.0-News#SVNSourceCode">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>More details:</strong></p>
<p>See also our detailed announcement:</p>
<div><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.2.0-News">http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.2.0-News</a></div>
<div>
<p><a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures">http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures</a> (overview of new 7 stable release series)</p>
<p>First time users may explore the <a href="https://grass.osgeo.org/documentation/first-time-users">first steps tutorial</a> after installation.</p>
</div>
<p><strong>About GRASS GIS</strong></p>
<p>The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (<a href="http://grass.osgeo.org/">http://grass.osgeo.org/</a>), commonly referred to as GRASS GIS, is an Open Source Geographic Information System providing powerful raster, vector and geospatial processing capabilities in a single integrated software suite. GRASS GIS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery. It also provides the capability to produce sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps. GRASS GIS has been translated into about twenty languages and supports a huge array of data formats. It can be used either as a stand-alone application or as backend for other software packages such as QGIS and R geostatistics. It is distributed freely under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). GRASS GIS is a founding member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).</p>
<p><em>The GRASS Development Team, October 2016</em></p>
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</div><img alt="" height="0" src="http://courses.neteler.org/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.neteler.org%2Fgrass-gis-7-2-0rc1-released%2F&amp;action_name=GRASS+GIS+7.2.0RC1+released&amp;urlref=http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.neteler.org%2Ffeed%2F" style="border: 0; width: 0; height: 0;" width="0" /><p>The post <a href="http://courses.neteler.org/grass-gis-7-2-0rc1-released/" rel="nofollow">GRASS GIS 7.2.0RC1 released</a> appeared first on <a href="http://courses.neteler.org" rel="nofollow">GFOSS Blog | GRASS GIS Courses</a>.</p>nospam@nospam.com (neteler)Sat, 29 Oct 2016 22:08:36 -0000http://courses.neteler.org/grass-gis-7-2-0rc1-released/grassgrass developmentopensourceosgeoLutra Consulting: WMTS Enhancement and XYZ Tile Native Support in QGIS 2.18http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/blog/2016/10/26/qgis-xyz-tile-wmts-preview/<p>In this post, we will highlight the new features we have added to QGIS 2.18 &hellip;</p>
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<h2>WMTS enhancement</h2>
<p>The WMTS provider had not been benefiting from the the <a href="http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/products/qgis-mtr/">QGIS multi-threaded rendering we did earlier in QGIS 2.4</a>.</p>
<p>In previous versions of QGIS, users had to wait until download of all tiles of a layer has finished in order to view the resulting map. This has now been fixed and the tiles show up in map canvas immediately as they get downloaded, improving the user experience by greatly lowering the time until something is shown.</p>
<p>Moreover, previously downloaded tiles from lower or higher resolutions may be used for the preview functionality in the areas where the tiles with correct resolution have not been downloaded yet.</p>
<p>The screencast below shows fetching and rendering a WMTS layer in QGIS 2.14 (left) and the same layer in QGIS 2.18 (right):</p>
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<h2>Support for XYZ raster tiles</h2>
<p>There are a couple of python plugins allowing users to add <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiled_web_map">XYZ tiles</a> (e.g. Bing maps) to QGIS. The plugins only allow certain web services and it is often tricky for supporting the private ones with API keys.</p>
<p>In addition, there are other QGIS applications without python support (e.g. QGIS for Android devices) where they can leverage from having a native support.</p>
<p>Currently, you can only add XYZ tile services from the Browser panel. The video below demonstrates how to add the current precipitation and OpenStreetMap xyz tiles to your QGIS:</p>
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<h2>Sponsors</h2>
<p>WMTS enhancements was sponsored by <a href="http://www.linz.govt.nz/">Land Information New Zealand</a>. Support for XYZ tiles was funded internally.</p>nospam@nospam.comWed, 26 Oct 2016 15:00:00 -0000http://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/blog/2016/10/26/qgis-xyz-tile-wmts-preview/anitagraser.com: More icons & symbols for QGIShttps://anitagraser.com/2016/10/23/more-icons-symbols-for-qgis/<p>The possibility to easily share plugins with other users and discover plugins written by other community members has been a powerful feature of QGIS for many years.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qgis_resource_sharing/">QGIS Resources Sharing</a> plugin is meant to enable the same sharing for map design resources. It allows you to share collections of resources, including but not limited to SVGs, symbols, styles, color ramps, and processing scripts.</p>
<p>Using the Resource Sharing plugin is like using the Plugin Manager. Once installed, you are presented with a list of available resource collections for download. You will find that there are already some really nice collections, including nautical symbols, <a href="https://www.mapbox.com/maki-icons/">Mapbox Maki Icons</a>, and my Google-like OSM road style.</p>
<p><a href="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/resourcesharing_maki.png"><img alt="resourcesharing_maki" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-4644" height="343" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/resourcesharing_maki.png?w=545&#038;h=343" width="545" /></a></p>
<p>By pressing Install, the resource collection is downloaded and you can have a look at the content using the Open folder button. In case of the Mapbox Maki Icon collection, it contains a folder of SVGs:</p>
<p><img alt="resourcesharing_folder" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-4643" height="266" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/resourcesharing_folder.png?w=545&#038;h=266" width="545" /></p>
<p>Using the new icons is as simple as opening the layer styling settings and selecting the Mapbox Maki Icons collection in the SVG group list:</p>
<p><a href="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/resourcesharing_styling.png"><img alt="resourcesharing_styling" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-4645" height="331" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/resourcesharing_styling.png?w=545&#038;h=331" width="545" /></a></p>
<p>Similarly, if you download the OSM Spatialite Googlemaps collection, its road line symbols are added to your existing list of available line symbols:</p>
<p><a href="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/resourcesharing_roads2.png"><img alt="resourcesharing_roads2" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4650" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/resourcesharing_roads2.png?w=545" /></a></p>
<p>By pressing the Open Library button, you get to the Style Manager where you can browse through all installed symbols and delete, rename, or categorize them.</p>
<p><a href="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/resourcesharing_roads.png"><img alt="resourcesharing_roads" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-4649" height="301" src="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/resourcesharing_roads.png?w=545&#038;h=301" width="545" /></a></p>
<p>The Resource Sharing plugin was <a href="http://www.akbargumbira.com/releasing-qgis-resource-sharing-plugin/index.html">developed by Akbar Gumbira</a> during this year&#8217;s <a href="http://www.akbargumbira.com/slide_gsoc2016/#/">Google Summer of Code</a>. The full documentation, including instructions for how to share your own symbols with the community, is available at <a href="http://www.akbargumbira.com/qgis_resources_sharing">www.akbargumbira.com/qgis_resources_sharing</a>.</p><br /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/underdark.wordpress.com/4642/" rel="nofollow"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/underdark.wordpress.com/4642/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=anitagraser.com&#038;blog=835829&#038;post=4642&#038;subd=underdark&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" />nospam@nospam.com (underdark)Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:36:36 -0000https://anitagraser.com/2016/10/23/more-icons-symbols-for-qgis/qgisnyalldawson.net: Speeding up your PyQGIS scriptshttp://nyalldawson.net/2016/10/speeding-up-your-pyqgis-scripts/<p>I&#8217;ve recently spent some time optimising the performance of various QGIS plugins and algorithms, and I&#8217;ve noticed that there&#8217;s a few common performance traps which developers fall into when fetching features from a vector layer. In this post I&#8217;m going to explore these traps, what makes them slow, and how to avoid them.</p>
<p>As a bit of background, features are fetched from a vector layer in QGIS using a <a href="https://qgis.org/api/classQgsFeatureRequest.html">QgsFeatureRequest</a> object. Common use is something like this:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
request = QgsFeatureRequest()
for feature in vector_layer.getFeatures(request):
# do something
</pre>
<p>This code would iterate over all the features in layer. Filtering the features is done by tweaking the QgsFeatureRequest, such as:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
request = QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterFid(1001)
feature_1001 = next(vector_layer.getFeatures(request))
</pre>
<p>In this case calling getFeatures(request) just returns the single feature with an ID of 1001 (which is why we shortcut and use next(&#8230;) here instead of iterating over the results).</p>
<p>Now, here&#8217;s the trap: calling getFeatures is expensive. If you call it on a vector layer, QGIS will be required to setup an new connection to the data store (the layer provider), create some query to return data, and parse each result as it is returned from the provider. This can be slow, especially if you&#8217;re working with some type of remote layer, such as a PostGIS table over a VPN connection. This brings us to our first trap:</p>
<h2>Trap #1: Minimise the calls to getFeatures()</h2>
<p>A common task in PyQGIS code is to take a list of feature IDs and then request those features from the layer. A see a lot of older code which does this using something like:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
for id in some_list_of_feature_ids:
request = QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterFid(id)
feature = next(vector_layer.getFeatures(request))
# do something with the feature
</pre>
<p>Why is this a bad idea? Well, remember that every time you call getFeatures() QGIS needs to do a whole bunch of things before it can start giving you the matching features. In this case, the code is calling getFeatures() once for every feature ID in the list. So if the list had 100 features, that means QGIS is having to create a connection to the data source, set up and prepare a query to match a single feature, wait for the provider to process that, and then finally parse the single feature result. That&#8217;s a lot of wasted processing!</p>
<p>If the code is rewritten to take the call to getFeatures() outside of the loop, then the result is:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
request = QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterFids(some_list_of_feature_ids)
for feature in vector_layer.getFeatures(request):
# do something with the feature
</pre>
<p>Now there&#8217;s just a single call to getFeatures() here. QGIS optimises this request by using a single connection to the data source, preparing the query just once, and fetching the results in appropriately sized batches. The difference is huge, especially if you&#8217;re dealing with a large number of features.</p>
<h2>Trap #2: Use QgsFeatureRequest filters appropriately</h2>
<p>Here&#8217;s another common mistake I see in PyQGIS code. I often see this one when an author is trying to do something with all the selected features in a layer:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
for feature in vector_layer.getFeatures():
if not feature.id() in vector_layer.selectedFeaturesIds():
continue
# do something with the feature
</pre>
<p>What&#8217;s happening here is that the code is iterating over all the features in the layer, and then skipping over any which aren&#8217;t in the list of selected features. See the problem here? This code iterates over EVERY feature in the layer. If you&#8217;re layer has 10 million features, we are fetching every one of these from the data source, going through all the work of parsing it into a QGIS feature, and then promptly discarding it if it&#8217;s not in our list of selected features. It&#8217;s very inefficient, especially if fetching features is slow (such as when connecting to a remote database source).</p>
<p>Instead, this code should use the <a href="https://qgis.org/api/classQgsFeatureRequest.html#a59955b7d1e3d23b32020465ce41e2da1">setFilterFids</a>() method for QgsFeatureRequest:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
request = QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterFids(vector_layer.selectedFeaturesIds())
for feature in vector_layer.getFeatures(request):
# do something with the feature
</pre>
<p>Now, QGIS will only fetch features from the provider with matching feature IDs from the list. Instead of fetching and processing every feature in the layer, only the actual selected features will be fetched. It&#8217;s not uncommon to see operations which previously took many minutes (or hours!) drop down to a few seconds after applying this fix.</p>
<p>Another variant of this trap uses expressions to test the returned features:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
filter_expression = QgsExpression('my_field &amp;gt; 20')
for feature in vector_layer.getFeatures():
if not filter_expression.evaluate(feature):
continue
# do something with the feature
</pre>
<p>Again, this code is fetching every single feature from the layer and then discarding it if it doesn&#8217;t match the &#8220;my_field &gt; 20&#8221; filter expression. By rewriting this to:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
request = QgsFeatureRequest().setFilterExpression('my_field &amp;gt; 20')
for feature in vector_layer.getFeatures(request):
# do something with the feature
</pre>
<p>we hand over the bulk of the filtering to the data source itself. Recent QGIS versions intelligently translate the filter into a format which can be applied directly at the provider, meaning that any relevant indexes and other optimisations can be applied by the provider itself. In this case the rewritten code means that ONLY the features matching the &#8216;my_field &gt; 20&#8217; criteria are fetched from the provider &#8211; there&#8217;s no time wasted messing around with features we don&#8217;t need.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Trap #3: Only request values you need</h2>
<p>The last trap I often see is that more values are requested from the layer then are actually required. Let&#8217;s take the code:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
my_sum = 0
for feature in vector_layer.getFeatures(request):
my_sum += feature['value']
</pre>
<p>In this case there&#8217;s no way we can optimise the filters applied, since we need to process every feature in the layer. But &#8211; this code is still inefficient. By default QGIS will fetch all the details for a feature from the provider. This includes all attribute values and the feature&#8217;s geometry. That&#8217;s a lot of processing &#8211; QGIS needs to transform the values from their original format into a format usable by QGIS, and the feature&#8217;s geometry needs to be parsed from it&#8217;s original type and rebuilt as a QgsGeometry object. In our sample code above we aren&#8217;t doing anything with the geometry, and we are only using a single attribute from the layer. By calling <a href="https://qgis.org/api/classQgsFeatureRequest.html#a57064dfedab31e466f9660f36dc6f6cf">setFlags</a>( QgsFeatureRequest.NoGeometry ) and <a href="https://qgis.org/api/classQgsFeatureRequest.html#a85f831f339a9882822d5d5cf19b29fdf">setSubsetOfAttributes</a>() we can tell QGIS that we don&#8217;t need the geometry, and we only require a single attribute&#8217;s value:</p>
<pre class="brush: python; title: ; notranslate">
my_sum = 0
request = QgsFeatureRequest().setFlags(QgsFeatureRequest.NoGeometry).setSubsetOfAttributes(['value'], vector_layer.fields() )
for feature in vector_layer.getFeatures(request):
my_sum += feature['value']
</pre>
<p>None of the unnecessary geometry parsing will occur, and only the &#8216;value&#8217; attribute will be fetched and populated in the features. This cuts down both on the processing required AND the amount of data transfer between the layer&#8217;s provider and QGIS. It&#8217;s a significant improvement if you&#8217;re dealing with larger layers.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Optimising your feature requests is one of the easiest ways to speed up your PyQGIS script! It&#8217;s worth spending some time looking over all your uses of getFeatures() to see whether you can cut down on what you&#8217;re requesting &#8211; the results can often be mind blowing!</p>nospam@nospam.com (Nyall Dawson)Mon, 17 Oct 2016 05:07:25 -0000http://nyalldawson.net/2016/10/speeding-up-your-pyqgis-scripts/geospatialosgeopyqgispythonqgisanitagraser.com: QGIS Atlas Tutorial – Material Designhttps://anitagraser.com/2016/10/15/qgis-atlas-tutorial-material-design/<p><em>This is a guest post by Mickael HOARAU <a href="https://twitter.com/Oneil974">@Oneil974</a></em></p>
<p>For people who are working on QGIS Atlas feature, I worked on an Atlas version of the last tutorial I have made. The difficulty level is a little bit more consequente then last tutorial but there are features that you could appreciate. So I&#8217;m happy to share with you and I hope this would be helpful.</p>
<a href="https://anitagraser.com/2016/10/15/qgis-atlas-tutorial-material-design/#gallery-4585-1-slideshow">Click to view slideshow.</a>
<p>You can download tutorial here:</p>
<p><a href="https://underdark.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/material_atlas_qgis_tutorial.pdf" style="color: #d91e3d;" title="Material Design Qgis Atlas Tutorial">Material Design &#8211; QGIS Atlas Tutorial</a></p>
<p>And sources here:</p>
<p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B37RnaYSMWAZUUJ2NUxhZC1TNmM/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #d91e3d;">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B37RnaYSMWAZUUJ2NUxhZC1TNmM/view?usp=sharing</a></p>
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